Brian Linzy » safari Archives – Brian Linzy http://blog.brianlinzy.com Si vis pacem, para bellum Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:20:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 5 Browsers http://blog.brianlinzy.com/2010/04/15/5-browsers/ http://blog.brianlinzy.com/2010/04/15/5-browsers/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:57:55 +0000 Brian http://blog.brianlinzy.com/?p=1595 Continue reading →]]> This is what it has come down to. For even the most basic website development you need to be looking at your site in a bunch of different browsers. If you don’t have the energy to put into it you can get away with just looking at Firefox and Internet Explorer, but that’s not a very good plan. I’m now looking at everything I do in 5 browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, and Safari. I try to see if from a couple of different operating systems, too.  And this is just for the desktop view. You also need to be aware of what your projects look like from mobile phones – at the very least iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

Here’s how I’m looking at the US Grappling site now:

www.usgrappling.us in Chrome

www.usgrappling.us in Firefox

www.usgrappling.us in IE

www.usgrappling.us in Opera

www.usgrappling.us in Safari

Seem like overkill? Consider this: on the PC I use 90% of the time I didn’t have Internet Explorer installed. According to our Analytics 48% our visitors are using Internet Explorer. I didn’t know it until I happened to see the site in IE, but our shopping cart does not work in IE. I’m still trying to fix it. I have no idea how long this has been a problem, or how many sales we missed.

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